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It seems as though they've never been able to come up with a very good screening tool for ovarian cancer except for a pelvic ultrasound. They do use the CA-125 as a means of measuring the progress of the disease once a patient is diagnosed but not as a screening tool. It's a dreadful disease.

It seems as though they've never been able to come up with a very good screening tool for ovarian cancer except for a pelvic ultrasound. They do use the CA-125 as a means of measuring the progress of the disease once a patient is diagnosed but not as a screening tool. It's a dreadful disease.

Just what is CA-125 and how does it work ??

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If there's no good screening test for this ailment and the symptoms are difficult to identify, I can't see how even being aware of this ailment will help reduce its influence on women. They just need to come up with some way of screening it.

CA-125 is a blood test that measures an antigen that is produced by this type of cancer. If the level is high in a woman, then ovarian cancer is suspected. It is not used as a screening tool because it can have false positives and such. However when the woman has a known ovarian cancer, the oncologist will watch this to help in her staging and to watch the progression of her disease. It's much like a PSA in a man.